{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-act-1986/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-act-1986/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/46",
  "legislation_title": "Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-act-1986",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Criminal penalties.",
  "text": "—If a person acts in contravention of a disqualification order or disqualification undertaking or in contravention of section 12(2) , 12A or 12B, or is guilty of an offence under section 11 or 11A, he is liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for not more than 2 years or a fine, or both; and\n(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for not more than 6 months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or both.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 13 inserted (2.4.2001) by 2000 c. 39, s. 8, Sch. 4 Pt. I para. 8(a)(b); S.I. 2001/766, art. 2(1)(a) (subject to transitional provisions in art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 13 substituted (1.9.2004) by The Insolvency Act 2000 (Company Directors Disqualification Undertakings) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1941), art. 2(3) (with art. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 13 inserted (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 4.3.2024 in so far as not already in force) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 36(3), 219(1)(2)(b); S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(z)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 13-15C applied (with modifications) by S.I. 1994/2421, art. 16, Sch. 8 (as amended (E.W.) (8.12.2017) by The Insolvency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1119), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 paras. 4, 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/46/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:54:56.770430+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}